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Thanks all for all the valuable thoughts!! > In my experience some FIX engines, on receipt of a message with space-valued > tags, will accept the message and simply ignore the tag with the space-values > as if it did not exist. Other engines will reject a message of this sort, > especially if the field type of the space-filled tag is anything but string > or char. > > You would be practicing good FIX-citizenry if you would omit space-valued > tags which conveyed no information. If however, if you felt you must send it > (think of Hanno's cancel-replace example where you wish to "remove" a > previous value), you could do so because a space, technically, is a value and > meets the requirement that "All tags must have a value specified". > > Be careful, though. It would be wise to test these scenarios with your target > systems since their responses may differ. > > -Greg [You can unsubscribe from this discussion group by sending a message to mailto:unsubscribe+100932...@fixprotocol.org] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Financial Information eXchange" group. To post to this group, send email to fix-proto...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to fix-protocol+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/fix-protocol?hl=en.
